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The XB I had before did that too--a demo disc that was snapped in half, literally hanging on only by the label, and it played it. However, there are three different drives that have been used in the XB, and they are not of equal performance. Incidentally, are the 2006 baseball games out yet?

Yeah, just saw that myself. Well, be interesting to see how they do it--whether there'll be entirely new sage designations, if some OOT sage roles return, and if they use descendants or not.

I hated him at first, but grew to enjoy him. He started to work harder and have better promos, but to this day I can't buy him as a serious champion. He's too damn goofy. That being said, I preferred him as champ over Cena now, and I'd take him as champ over Orton without any hesitation.

Hm, well, I'd like to see that confirmed somewhere, but I'd think with all the land around that it wouldn't be. And even those the WW sages are descended from the old, Laruto isn't the water sage, but rather of Wind. They can and will add/drop sages as they feel necessary. But yeah, WW ties together with the OOT/MM continuity--found this an interesting read: http://www.zeldalegends.net/index.php?n=story_faq_tww

Zelda continuity jumps around. Wind Waker hints as the previous games, but if we look at Zelda 1, 2, and Lttp as one Link, we have to look at OOT / MM Link as another. It's hard to place Link's Awakening, the Oracles games, and Minish Cap. The new GC Zelda seems that, timeline wise, it would still be a lot closer to the OOT/MM timeline than it would WW. It may even explain how the world of Wind Waker came to be. However, Wind Waker made it clear that there are multiple Links, and the story arcs do tie together somewhat.

AIP's funded directors such as Bert I. Gordon, Roger Corman (who, while not a good director, often had it covered up by working with talented people, like Beverly Garland and of course Vincent Price), and of course Larry "just didn't care" Z. Buchanan (who made *remakes* of early AIP movies, unbelievably enough). Most B-movie fans will more fondly remember the 50's though. What did they do during the 60's that rocked? I'm thinking the Vincent Price stuff (which did indeed rock), but other than that I'm drawing blanks. That, Larry Z, and Gamera are all I can think of. Funny enough, CHiPs director Bernard Kowalski's also directed Attack of the Giant Leeches (which was an AIP production) and Night of the Blood Beast--which both were partly written by Roger Corman's *brother*. Here's a listing of AIP credits, but it's not in chronological order and it's soooo long that it's hard to skim over it. http://www.imdb.com/List?distributors=Amer...AIP)%20%5Bus%5D 70's weren't too bad for them it seems, with stuff like Foxy Brown, Amityville Horror, and The Abominable Mr. Phibes.

I think, as mentioned in another thread, it's not going to show much in the shows. Vince and Steph will say "write a program for Viscera where he ends up as Trish's bodyguard" or "come up with a program for the returning Mark Henry," or "write a funny promo for Batista to say after he helps JR pin HHH." They're likely so constrained that any ambition they have towards quality goes to pot and we're still going to see crap. However, Gerwitz was always awful, but he has enough pull to get more of his ideas heard (he's basically the one in charge after Steph), so I'm not giving him a free pass for sucking.

Chef Boyardee was giving away free movie passes with UPCs and forms, or candy bar companies usually they'd have some offer going for it. I've rarely had to pay money to see a movie in over a year. (Mmm! Beefy!) I doubt they'll lack the quality control of 50's/60's AIP. Can't wait.

How so? I think sarcasm was implied. The tunic is of course in--I've seen it in screen shots and concept art. However, it appears to have iron mail underneath it. I expect the game to have multiple tunics with different properties, like OOT. Perhaps more variety. The "sub-aquatic world" part, to me, screams the return of the Zoras as allies. Likely they'll bring back Ruto too. Well, maybe not, but there's so much unrealized potential in OOT for underwater areas.

This has got to be an improvement. "Does anyone else still giggle at the prospect of 'WWE Films'?" Hey, they got a writer who worked on Renegade, so maybe there's hope for The Marine (which I think is the one that sounds like a direct ripoff) yet. At the worst, I await WWE films with the same masochistic b-movie-loving glee as I do the newest Uwe Boll project.

I've heard rumors about it, but I honestly haven't seen anything substantial--not an official press release, a screenshot, a real title at all since Lunar Legend. I think a few weeks back the rumors started again, but still nothing concrete. I think both Lunars had their drunken leches in the originals--but not familiar with the Japanese versions, obviously. I'm aware Leo was straight as an arrow while in the US Lunar 2 they hint that he may be gay or bi. How could you guys forget the HOT ESPER-ON-HUMAN ACTION in FFVI?

While I'm skeptical about it myself, I think JotW has surpassed me as the biggest cynic in this folder.

"Oh making your child go to a Christian school. It leads to stupidity." I went to a private Christian school from 4th grade to Jr. high. I enjoyed it much more there than at the public school, and when I hit Sr. High, I was getting straight A's while hardly even trying.

There's also the Cecil/Rosa thing, which I think was restored in the Chronicles version of FFIV. But it was considered too risque back in the day. I'm fairly sure they more or less came out and said that spoony bard was getting some too.

I'm absolutely certain I saw a mahjong game listed in the PSP's lineup. The DS will probably have one as well, though. There's always a mahjong title.

Case rested.

But the Ratchet and Clank series kicks insane amounts of ass. -=Mike Seconded. It's about the only 3d platform game/series I like as much as Mario 64. The Jaks are insanely overrated, IMO. Sly's good but a bit too old school and limited.

Okay, poor choice of words, and you and Jobber let me have on it on that. I meant mainly in the sense that it's a completely different genre basically, but it does have plenty of FF connections--Jobber mentioned some of the ones you missed. Jingus' descriptions/summations are quite amusing. It seems hard to really think of Zidane as the star of FFIX, main hero/player character are not. He's just bland. Really bland. Crono and Mario had more personality in their respective RPGs. So bland that they had to give him a freakish deformity to make him memorable. The real star was Vivi with the closest behind him being Dagger/Garnet, IMO. Lunar, too. Although much of it was rather crude in nature (much like the rest of the translation in that game). Although Mia and Nash had that high-school-ish romance thing going on. Although we know they eventually got together, hence Lemina (who I expected to call Hiro "Third Child" at any time).

I see--that must be the gripe with the Draw system. Hadn't gotten far enough to tell. The things I didn't like about IX were: -that the Tetra Master games went far beyond a simple little sidequest thing and got to be too much a part of the main game. -the arcane secrets that you'd need to mess around with PlayOnline to get. I seem to recall I got the guide because getting it with the game was rather cheap--little did I realize that it was a complete waste to spend any money on that guide. Other than that, IX was good. Vivi's been mentioned over and over again, but it was like a throwback to the older games with the semi-SD character designs, and the heavier fantasy elements. Plus, I'd hoped that they'd go back to having more than 3 party members at a time, but they didn't.

360 needs at least a good racer, fighter, and 3D platformer at launch, but a Halo would be fine too. I think the 360 looks stupid. More like a cheapt-looking DVD player than a video game console.

Tactics is Final Fantasy in name only, like the early SD games--I meant out of the existing 11/12 there are now. However, it always amused me that many Final Fantasy fans would call it their favorite FF game.

Pretty much all my favorite eps were mentioned already. But aside from those, I like the Kif-centric episodes. Plus you gotta love the one where the space brain Star Trek fan kidnapped TOS' actors heads (Where No Fan Has Gone Before). I never saw the entire thing, but Zap and Shatner should have butted heads at least once. "My favorite one was the one where they go back to the 1950s with the Area 51 parody. Zoidberg is impeccable in that episode. " Awesome as well. Especially as Fry pelts the president with Zoidberg's organs. Plus the whole thing with Fry's dad and what happened after was sick but hilarious. They even had continuity going later on. The Problem With Popplers is gold for Morbo in rare form plus Smelly Hippie (Ride the Walrus!). Godfellas (when Bender becomes a planet/god) was pretty good, although it was far from original.

I only clicked because I thought it was going to be the song Jeff wrote about it, you bastard!

FFVIII seems to be hated the most by the the FFVII newcomers who will swear up and down that FFVII is still the gr8est RPG ever. I really don't see that as a detriment. The battle system needed a kick in the rear, and the Draw system was a nice attempt at that. I hadn't played too much of it though.

Smues--yeah, I read that too. There are 3 different breeds but NP didn't say which ones (so I didn't mention that). Details aren't confirmed for the US, but I say more sports, more breeds, and may as well make some pink DSes . Oh, and you can play the sports games against other players via wireless play. BTW, for Yoshi's Story... -- Gamespot, which is surprising, since Gamefan mentioned over and over again how Miyamoto was involved in it, but that was a preview version...